Comfort for the Cows by Hare Krsna Devi Dasi

Sep 1, 1997 | Hare Krsna Devi Dasi, Varnasrama—Simple Living, High Thinking, Volume-31 Number-05

SRILA PRABHUPADA writes in a purport to the Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.8.16), "[Krsna's] first business is to give all comfort to the cows and the brahmanas. In fact, comfort for the brahmanas is secondary, and comfort for the cows is... read more

An Ox? What’s That? by Hare Krsna Devi Dasi

Jul 1, 1997 | Hare Krsna Devi Dasi, Varnasrama—Simple Living, High Thinking, Volume-31 Number-04

WE CAN LEARN A LOT about history and the people writing it by keeping tuned to what is not being said. Applying this principle, we can see why Westerners have such trouble understanding the significance of cow protection especially protection of the bull or... read more

The Vedic Solution to World Hunger by Hare Krsna Devi Dasi

May 1, 1997 | Hare Krsna Devi Dasi, Varnasrama—Simple Living, High Thinking, Volume-31 Number-03

LAST NOVEMBER the World Food Summit in Rome tried to figure out how to feed the world's 840 million chronically hungry people. The meeting's secretary general, Dr. Kay Killingsworth, said that the problem was not insufficient food production but inequitable... read more

1997 – The Year of the Ox by Hare Krsna Devi Dasi

Jan 1, 1997 | Hare Krsna Devi Dasi, Varnasrama—Simple Living, High Thinking, Volume-31 Number-01

ACCORDING TO the East Asian calendar, 1997 is the Year of the Ox. And as one devotee has put it, "Ox power is fifty percent of cow protection, because bulls are fifty percent of the herd." Our friends the vegans may hope to escape the sin of animal slaughter... read more

Why Commercial Dairies Can’t Stop Killing by Hare Krsna Devi Dasi

Nov 1, 1996 | Hare Krsna Devi Dasi, Varnasrama—Simple Living, High Thinking, Volume-30 Number-06

FROM TIME TO TIME I receive letters from people who want to help our Hare Krsna farms develop. They often suggest we market "organic milk" or "milk from protected cows." So it was with interest that I read the following instruction by Grandfather... read more

Varnasrama Village for the Twenty-First Century by Hare Krsna Devi Dasi

Sep 1, 1996 | Hare Krsna Devi Dasi, Varnasrama—Simple Living, High Thinking, Volume-30 Number-05

I'VE WRITTEN HERE about Srila Prabhupada's plans to spread Krsna consciousness by developing varnasrama, the Vedic social system. If put into place in the coming century, what would varnasrama be like? A clue lies in what Srila Prabhupada... read more